Lure of the Month: Lure #1 - Flaptail

[BassDawg]

verrrrry interesting~~~
thanks to ALL the contributors, esp. Dr Gee!
sum excellent pix and chronology of the lure.

ya mean i have to increase my AYC arsenal, again?

looks extremely fishy, i love spooky lures, add in the double whammy of flash and tail wiggle to the tail, and you have a striper magnet, no?

so, is it safe to assume that the deep shads and the swim shads were bourne from this lure's success from the middle to the top of the water column, but it's inability to fish the bottom of the column with any degree of consistency or effectiveness?

since i've never fished one, i can only go by sight,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

by my eye~ it doesn't "look" like any of the FLAPS featured above would allow you to get to where the big gurls laze about, down deep, caruising the bottoms for their next tasty morsel?? with the Swim Shads, i see the same wiggly/wobbly/bubble generating "tail" combined with the "flash" of the hollographic shimmer/finish, add in the ownership of the structure at its depths with life-like action and profile~~~~ and it just ain't fair,,,,,,,,,,,,sometimes, it feels like cheating!! then again, i AM an EEEEEEEELIN' sumana beeeetch


any truth to my wonderings,,,,,,,,or, am i LOST in my own Sea of Discombobulation?

[numbskull]

Originally Posted by BassDawg

by my eye~ it doesn't "look" like any of the FLAPS featured above would allow you to get to where the big gurls laze about, down deep, caruising the bottoms for their next tasty morsel?? ?

Injured, dying, exhausted, large bait fish don't stay deep......they struggle slowly on the surface. Large bass do not pass up easy meals (provided they do not have to go far through fast water to get them).

Plugging is not about feeding fish (as are eels). It is about fooling fish. Making your offering look like easy prey helps achieve this. The flaptail does exactly that.

[BassDawg]

Originally Posted by numbskull

Injured, dying, exhausted, large bait fish don't stay deep......they struggle slowly on the surface. Large bass do not pass up easy meals (provided they do not have to go far through fast water to get them).

Plugging is not about feeding fish (as are eels). It is about fooling fish. Making your offering look like easy prey helps achieve this. The flaptail does exactly that.

as always,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

thanks be to you, George, for your setting me straight~~~
do you not see the similarities with the swimshads, though??

as implied earlier, i LOVE the take on the surface and i've fooled sum beauties with AH spooks and sliders, Salty's sheriffs, RI's custom builder's poppers, Tattoo's jointeds/darters(middle), etc,,,,,,,,,,,,,

ALL good, and very sweet to see/feel the explosion on top!!
i WILL definitely be looking to score some this Winter~~~

yet, none of the above approaches the takes i've had down deep, along the bottoms, from PTSMTH to WHLT and many pts inbetween. either via the snake or the swimshads of aforemention. thanks, again, Numby, excellent compare and contrast with the feeding and the fooling!!